related works
Cascade (Symphony Nº 2) : Concerto for orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
piss 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb-t trb-b tp timp perc hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl fg fg(cfg) 2h trp trp(trp-p) trb-t trb-b tb timp perc erhu str
The shadowmaker : four pieces for baritone and orchestra / Rudi van Dijk, text by Gwendolyn MacEwen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 3222 4331 timp 6perc pf str tape
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
low 2fl 2cl 2ob 2h str(6.6.4.4.2.)
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans